No Place of Grace

T. J. Jackson Lears is the Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers University and the author of numerous books, including Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877-1920 and Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in America.

• Foreword by Jennifer Ratner-RosenhagenPreface (1994)PrefaceAcknowledgments 1. Roots of Antimodernism: The Crisis of Cultural Authority during the Late Nineteenth CenturyA Pattern of Evasive Banality: Official Modern Culture in Industrial AmericaA Social Crisis: The Republican Tradition and the Radical SpecterUnreal City: Social Science, Secularization, and the Emergence of WeightlessnessPsychic Crisis: Neurasthenia and the Emergence of a Therapeutic World View2. The Figure of the Artisan: Arts and Crafts IdeologyOrigins of the American Craft Revival: Persons and PerceptionsRevitalization and Transformation in Arts and Crafts Ideology: The Simple Life, Aestheticism, Educational ReformReversing Antimodernism: The Factory, the Market, and the Process of RationalizationThe Fate of the Craft Ideal3. The Destructive Element: Modern Commercial Society and the Martial IdealFrom Domestic Realism to “Real Life”Class, Race, and the Worship of ForceThe Psychological Uses of the Martial Ideal: The Cult of Experience and the Quest for Authentic SelfhoodThe Psychological Uses of the Martial Ideal: Guiney, Norris, Adams4. The Morning of Belief: Medieval Mentalities in a Modern WorldThe Image of Childhood and the Childhood of the RaceMedieval Sincerity: Genteel and RobustMedieval Vitality: The Erotic Union of Sacred and ProfaneThe Medieval Unconscious: Therapy and Protest5. The Religion of Beauty: Catholic Forms and American ConsciousnessThe Rise of Catholic Taste: Cultural Authority and Personal RegenerationArt, Ritual, and Belief: The Protestant DilemmaAmerican Anglo-Catholicism: Legitimation and ProtestThe Poles of Anglicanism: Cram and Scudder6. From Patriarchy to Nirvana: Patterns of AmbivalenceThe Problem of Victorian Ambivalence: Sources and SolutionsThe Lotus and the Father: Bigelow, Lowell, LodgeWilliam Sturgis BigelowPercival LowellGeorge Cabot LodgeAesthetic Catholicism and “Feminine” Values: Norton, Hall, BrooksCharles Eliot NortonG. Stanley HallVan Wyck Brooks7. From Filial Loyalty to Religious Protest: Henry AdamsEarly Manhood: The Meandering Track of the Family Go-CartHusband, Historian, Novelist: Adams’s Crisis of GenerativityThe Antimodern Quest: From Niagara to the VirginBetween Father and Mother, I: The Virgin, the Dynamo, and the Angelic DoctorBetween Father and Mother, II: The Antimodern ModernistEpilogueBiographical AppendixNotesIndex

"Auspicious radical history: cogently argued, crisply written, and alive with intellectual passion."-- "Kirkus Reviews" "This is a powerful and provocative reinterpretation. . . of the dominant Anglo-American culture of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It is a book that all scholars in the field will have to take into account."-- "American Historical Review"